pontificate
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As the chaos unfolds, Greengrass doesn’t pontificate on the morality of these events and, in fact, maintains a rather neutral stance on them for most of the film, withholding judgment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Aged 70 and in good physical shape, he could have a long pontificate ahead of him.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
His pontificate was a steady point of authority in an increasingly unstable world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV held the first Christmas mass of his pontificate on Wednesday, greeting thousands of faithful in St Peter's Square before the service in an usually informal style.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
They pontificate upon the fluffiness of the popcorn, the sweetness of the chocolate.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
All this means it’s hard not to laugh when Hegseth pontificates about his hatred of “weirdos.”
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
With his 10 years as pontiff, Francis has now reigned longer than the 7.5 years average length of the previous 265 pontificates.
From Reuters ● Mar. 13, 2023
Francis told Gaenswein to stop coming to the office and to dedicate himself to caring for Benedict, essentially ending his job as the “bridge” between the pontificates.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
When Dudamel pontificates about music’s ability to unify communities and heal the soul, his voice comes through with pitch-perfect emotion.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022
The captain stands behind me at the helm, and pontificates to his congregation of one.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
On Monday’s episode of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg pontificated on the matter for an entire segment, reading from Van der Velden’s apology before going in for the takedown.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
I listened where before I might only have pontificated.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
He pontificated, and they filed down that sharpness respectfully.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2024
Some recalled tales from the Cannes Film Festival; others debated the merits of different artificial intelligence platforms and pontificated on the future of “wearable AI.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
He pontificated and vaticinated from his retreat in the rue Saint-Sulpice, haranguing the reader with an apocalyptic language partaking in spots of the bitterness of an Isaiah.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The White House, in response to those remarks, said Madden should “stick to pontificating about pump-and-dump fraud schemes instead of international trade,” as MarketWatch reported last year.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026
Your special opens with you pontificating on how much you love the pageantry of American stand-up specials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
He’s talking to a group of students at a historically Black college, not pontificating to the camera or charming potential investors.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
When he left the Pentagon, he dedicated himself to pontificating on the abundant sins of the Defense Department — and he was mostly right.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024
“After all of your pontificating about the contortionist?”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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